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Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: …
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 41 - Letter from the Communist … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to …
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 and Immorality Act (1950) made it a criminal offence for a person to have any …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… years later. The ANC called for a new protest and 26 June 1950 was set aside as a day of mourning for the dead. Once … Group Areas Act and the Suppression of…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the country but also for world history in…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.” He’s talking about the Blue…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal University spanned…
PlaceOranjezicht
Oranjezicht is a charming suburb located in the heart of Cape Town’s City Bowl, offering a unique blend of natural beauty, vibrant culture, and stylish living…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… Communism Act was being felt. The Act had been passed in 1950; two years after the Nationalist Party had come to …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… national stoppage of work in South Africa, on June 26, 1950. While there were these three organisations, the Party … of the fascist threat in the country. In…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
Introduction The first elections to the Indian House of Delegates (HoD) in the racially segregated tricameral parliament took place on 28 August 1984. The…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge of social…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… law. 1949 Walter Sisulu is elected ANC Secretary General. 1950 At birth South Africans are classified and registered in … arrest, and prohibition on…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… commemorate the National Day of Protest held on 26th June, 1950, the day on which on the call of the President-General … conditions, the one-day protests on…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… income as a domestic worker. Mzingaye died suddenly in 1950, when Steve was four years old. His mother subsequently …
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ticks all three boxes, this is a…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a political leader,grassroots…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 7 - 'White South Africa.' Two … South Africa's Radical Tradition: 1907…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… from all. This is the message and the call Ever since 1950, June 26 has become a special day in the calendar of the …
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on June 26, 1955 We, the…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… was born in Oakdale, Western Cape on the 19 September 1950, the second child of five siblings. He grew up in …
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but…